Ephedra

Name :

Alexandre Cohen

Location :

Belgium

Style :

Melodic Goa Trance

Live :

DJ :

Biography

Ephedra is Alexandre Cohen, a Belgian producer/ dj born in Brussels.
Alex musical trip started around 15 years ago when he discovered electronic music.
He began slowly to buy dj equipment and started to play progressive trance for his own pleasure.
After some years training with the decks he got intrested in many others electronic styles like techno, house, electro and began to play in small student parties.
After some time he discovered Goa trance / psytrance while he was at a festival in Belgium. He was so impressed that he directly felt in love with that music.
Some times later he began to play in small oldskool goa parties and started to produce his own music.
In the meantime he started a party organisation called "Goa Madness" with three other friends and made his first live act in 2007.
Soon after he had the opportunity to be a resident for the german party org "Tranceforce prod" and started to play live acts and dj sets in Germany a few times a year.
His first release « acid rain » appeared on the compilation « Goa overdose 3 » (UAF recs) followed by a couple of other releases on labels such as Suntrip records, Sita records, Ovnimoon recs & more.
His style is melodic, euphoric and sometimes acidic Goatrance with a lot of different influences.
Alex is also one of the label mangers of the new label « Goa Madness records »